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SUMMARY:MechE Colloquium: From Insights into Phase-Change Heat and Mass Tr
 ansfer to Meeting Basic Human Needs
DTSTART:20261124T120000
DTEND:20261124T130000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Srinivas Garimella\, George W. Woodruff School of Mech
 anical Engineering\, Georgia Institute of Technology\nAbstract: The ther
 mal sciences are at the heart of just about every human need and activity.
   Burgeoning worldwide energy demand and its impact on global climate\, h
 ave further brought the importance of heat transfer to the fore.  In the 
 push toward decarbonization\, electrification alone may not yield immediat
 e reductions in carbon emissions because fossil-free renewable options are
  still in the ramp up phase.  Insights into phase change heat and mass tr
 ansfer and innovations in heat driven cycles provide a suite of options to
  complement renewable electricity and progress toward this goal.  The rol
 e of sorption in space-conditioning through innovative heat and mass trans
 fer processes driven by renewable energy sources or waste heat will be pre
 sented.  Waste heat driven sorption heat pumps to provide cooling in seve
 re ambient conditions will be shown to reduce the carbon footprint at kW t
 o MW scales.  Applications of heat pumping\, including enhancing the perf
 ormance of commercial dryers\, and the development of diurnal and seasonal
  thermal storage systems\, will be discussed.  Likewise\, thermochemical 
 adsorption-based thermal storage to augment the performance of vapor compr
 ession heat pumps and better utilize intermittent renewable energy or addr
 ess varying electricity costs will be discussed. Adsorption chillers drive
 n by biomass\, solar or waste heat for use in the cold chain to reduce foo
 d spoilage in areas with uncertain electricity infrastructure will also be
  presented. Simultaneous space-conditioning and water purification systems
  at the residential scale\, power plant cooling without water-intensive co
 oling towers\, innovative designs for next generation nuclear reactors\, s
 orbent-loaded microchannel fibers for carbon capture from power plants\, a
 nd water and energy conservation in aluminum ingot casting are other heat 
 transfer related technologies that will be briefly discussed.   These rep
 resentative applications demonstrate the vast potential for innovations an
 d the impact of phase-change heat and mass transfer as the backbone for me
 eting essential human needs such as food\, water\, clothing\, thermal comf
 ort\, and the environment.\n\n\nBiography: Dr. Srinivas Garimella is the 
 Hightower Chair in Engineering and Director of the Sustainable Thermal Sys
 tems Laboratory at Georgia Institute of Technology. He is a Fellow of the 
 ASME and of ASHRAE. He is Editor of the Int. J. Air-conditioning and Refri
 geration\, and past Associate Editor of the ASME J. Heat Transfer and ASME
  J. Energy Resources Technology\, and of the ASHRAE SBTE Journal. He is Pa
 st Chair of the Advanced Energy Systems Division of ASME and was on the AS
 HRAE Research Administration Committee. He has mentored ~100 students purs
 uing their M.S. and Ph.D. degrees\, postdoctoral researchers\, and researc
 h engineers\, with his research resulting in over 400 archival journal and
  conference publications\, a textbook on Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow in M
 inichannels and Microchannels (2nd Ed.\, Elsevier 2014)\, and books on Con
 densation Heat Transfer (World Scientific Publishing\, 2015) and Adsorptio
 n Heat Pumps (Springer Nature\, 2021.) He is the recipient of the NSF CARE
 ER Award (1999)\, the ASHRAE New Investigator Award (1998)\, the SAE Ralph
  E. Teetor Educational Award for Engineering Educators (1998).  He receiv
 ed the ASME Heat Transfer Memorial Award (2024) and the Georg Alefeld awar
 d (2024) for outstanding and lifelong contributions to the field of sorpti
 on chillers and heat pumps.  He also received the ASME Award for Outstand
 ing Research Contributions in the Field of Two-Phase Flow and Condensation
  in Microchannels (2012) and the Prominent Researcher Award at the Micro F
 low and Interfacial Phenomena Conference 2022 for sustained and outstandin
 g contributions to the fundamentals of phase change heat transfer at mini
 ‐ and micro‐scales and coupled heat and mass transfer in binary fluids
 .  He is a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil\, 2026-2027.  He was recognized w
 ith the Thomas French Distinguished Educator Achievement Award (2008) from
  The Ohio State University\, and the Zeigler Outstanding Educator Award (2
 012) and the Sigma Xi Sustained Research Award (2023) from Georgia Tech.
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